ATTN JMS: Superman

 Posted on 10/21/2000 by jmsatb5@aol.com to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated


>Since you are working on Spiderman now, I was wondering what you would
>do if they asked you to do a Superman comic-book series, since Superman
>is your favorite. What changes would you make, if any?

What would I do *after* I fainted...?

I'd drop pretty much anything to do Supes, because the character has been an
icon to me since I could read. What I'd try to do is hew close to the kind of
characterization you saw in Alan Moore's "Whatever Happened to the Man of
Tomorrow?" which concluded the pre-Byrne Superman (and the post-Byrne Supes I
don't even recognize anymore).

They mucked with the character because they said they couldn't do anything
interesting with him. Moore proved them wrong.

jms

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